The Tenth and Eleventh were stunned, taking a long time to recover and hurriedly kowtowed in gratitude.
It’s nothing,” Ye Hui responded with a smile, “One cannot judge a book by its cover. Who says farmers can’t produce outstanding sons? Zhu Yuanzhang came from a beggar’s background, Reagan was from a theatrical background, and Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature without even finishing middle school.”
Ye Hui was deeply touched by her husband’s thoughtfulness, and that night she tried to satisfy his physical needs, moving from initiative to passivity and then to enjoyment, an endless display of affection.
Early the next morning, Qin Yuhang went to Tianying Mountain to pick up Hengting, a round trip that would take several days. Ye Hui was bored in the Prince’s Palace, and it happened to be the largest market day of the year in Pingzhou on April 10th, and city residents loved to join in the excitement.
Wanting to enjoy herself thoroughly, she didn’t prepare a carriage. Ye Hui wore an ordinary white silk long dress, her short hair loosely draped over her shoulders, without any jewelry, only a floor-length dark green silk shawl as decoration. Since it had rained the night before and the ground was not yet dry, A Jin abandoned the embroidered shoes and brought a pair of light deerskin boots for Ye Hui to wear.
The road was crowded with people, with Old Ten and Old Eleven accompanying her as they walked south out of the city. The roadside was lined with endless stalls, with vendors constantly shouting.
The crowd was dense, but fortunately the road was wide enough to move around.
Two bodyguards, worried she might be jostled, protected her from left and right, pushing away anyone who accidentally bumped into her.
After looking around, she found nothing worth buying – everything sold at the market was already available in the Prince’s Palace, and anything not in the market was not lacking in the palace.
She stopped at a Persian merchant’s stall, which displayed some rare trinkets uncommon in Yingtang market. Though rare, they were not unusual to Ye Hui, who had just browsed the palace warehouse the day before and seen similar items scattered on the floor.
